A fine balance

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Rohinton Mistry: A fine balance (2001, Alfred A. Knopf)

603 pages

English language

Published Jan. 24, 2001 by Alfred A. Knopf.

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A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.

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Subjects

  • India -- History -- 1947- -- Fiction.